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Demo (music)
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A demo is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release. Demos are typically recorded on relatively crude equipment such as boom box cassette recorders, small four-track or eight-track machines, songwriters and publishers demos are recorded with minimal instrumentation - usually just an acoustic guitar or piano, and the vocalist. Many unsigned bands and artists record demos in order to obtain a recording contract and these demos are usually sent to record labels in hopes that the artist will be signed onto the labels roster and allowed to record a full-length album in a professional recording studio. Many signed bands and artists record demos of new songs before recording an album, Demos may include as few as one or two songs or as many as would be contained on a full-length album. Demo recordings are heard by the public, although some artists do eventually release rough demos in rarities compilation albums or box sets. Other demo versions have been released as bootleg recordings, such as The Beatles The Beatles Bootleg Demos. Several artists have made official releases of demo versions of their songs as albums or companion pieces to albums, such as Florence. The event of a demo tape appearing on eBay has happened in the past, in more underground forms of music, such as noise music, black metal or punk, demos are often distributed by bands to fans as self-releases, or sold at a very low price. Collection of Demo Covers Music From the Demo Scene

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Behemoth (band)
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Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, despite Behemoth having been labeled as death metal or thrash metal-influenced, Nergal has mentioned that he does not like the band to be labeled. Behemoth was formed in 1991 as a trio, with Nergal on guitar and vocals, Baal on the drums and they started with the demos Endless Damnation, and The Return of the Northern Moon. The most significant however, was the third demo—. From the Pagan Vastlands and this tape was released by Polish label Pagan Records and later on by the American Wild Rags. Their next release was Sventevith in 1995, a year later, they recorded their second album Grom, which was released in 1996. Grom features many different influences and musical styles, using vocals as well as acoustic guitars and synthesizers. At the same time, Behemoth finally got a chance to live shows in its native country and finally tour around Europe. Two years later, the recorded a third album, titled Pandemonic Incantations. The culmination of their presence and metal media set a new standard for them. However, due to a lack of promotion, the album was not well-publicized, after another extensive tour, Behemoth signed a two-album deal with Italys Avantgarde Music in the fall of 1998. The first result of this new collaboration was the successful album Satanica, the label also secured two European tours for the band in support of Deicide and Satyricon respectively. During that period, Behemoth had to go through some changes and had problems with their ex-Polish label. By the time Satanica came out, Inferno and Les were out of the band, Nergal began looking for new members but could not find a new drummer. Inferno returned to the band in early 2000, along with new members Novy, who handled the duties, and Havok. After the line-up changes Behemoth signed with the Polish label Mystic Production, the follow-up release to Satanica was Thelema.6. Massive guitar parts and precise drumming, with influences from different sources, Thelema.6 was supported by the worldwide press and media, including official releases in Russia and Brazil for the first time. Continuing the support for Thelema.6, Behemoth appeared in several live events like Wacken Open Air, With Full Force, Inferno Metal Festival, Mystic Festival. They started first their headlining tour alongside Carpathian Forest and Khold, in 2001, Behemoth focused on writing new material for a sixth studio album

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Black metal
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Black metal is an extreme subgenre and subculture of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw recording, unconventional song structures. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms, during the 1980s, several thrash and death metal bands formed a prototype for black metal. This so-called first wave included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer, a second wave arose in the early 1990s, spearheaded by Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Immortal, Emperor, Satyricon and Gorgoroth. The early Norwegian black metal scene developed the style of their forebears into a distinct genre, norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles independently. Some prominent Swedish bands spawned during this wave, such as Marduk, Nifelheim. Initially a synonym for Satanic metal, black metal is often met with hostility from mainstream culture, due to the actions, many artists express extreme anti-Christian and misanthropic views, advocating various forms of Satanism or ethnic paganism. In the 1990s, members of the scene were responsible for a spate of church burnings, there is also a small neo-Nazi movement within black metal, although it has been shunned by many prominent artists. Generally, black metal strives to remain underground, inaccessible to the mainstream, although contemporary black metal typically refers to the Norwegian style with shrieking vocals and raw production, the term has also been applied to bands with widely differing sounds. Norwegian-inspired black metal guitarists usually favor high-pitched or trebly guitar tones, the guitar is usually played with fast, un-muted tremolo picking. Guitarists often use dissonance—along with specific scales, intervals and chord progressions—to create a sense of dread, the tritone, or flat-fifth, is often used. Guitar solos and low guitar tunings are rare in black metal, the bass guitar is seldom used to play stand-alone melodies. It is not uncommon for the bass to be muted against the guitar, some newer black metal bands began raising their production quality and introducing additional instruments such as synthesizers and even orchestras. The drumming is usually fast and relies on double-bass and blast beats to maintain tempos that can sometimes approach 300 beats per minute and these fast tempos require great skill and physical stamina, typified by black metal drummers Frost and Hellhammer. Even still, authenticity is still prioritized over technique and this professionalism has to go, insists well-respected drummer and metal historian Fenriz of Darkthrone. I want to de-learn playing drums, I want to play primitive and simple, I dont want to play like a drum solo all the time, Black metal songs often stray from conventional song structure and often lack clear verse-chorus sections. Instead, many black metal songs contain lengthy and repetitive instrumental sections, the Greek style—established by Rotting Christ, Necromantia and Varathron—has more traditional heavy metal and death metal traits than Norwegian black metal. Traditional black metal bands tend to favor raspy, high-pitched vocals which include such as shrieking, screaming, and snarling

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
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Sventevith is the debut studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in April 1995 by Pagan Records and it has since been re-released through numerous other labels. The album inside cover artwork shows The Temple of Swarog by Stanisław Jakubowski, all music composed by Nergal, except Ancient and Hell Dwells in Ice which were written and performed by Polish black metal band Demonious

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Adam Darski
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Adam Nergal Darski is a Polish musician and television personality, best known for being the frontman for the black/death metal band Behemoth. Darski was born Adam Michał Darski in Gdynia, Poland, raised Catholic and he goes by the stage name Nergal, and he is the founder, lyricist, main composer, frontman and manager of the band Behemoth, which he started when he was still a teenager. He also plays lead, rhythm and acoustic guitar, for a brief time he used the alias Holocausto, inspired by Beherit leader Nuclear Holocausto. In late 1990s he was a vocalist and guitarist of the Danzig-influenced band, Wolverine, which was showcasing Nergals capability of clean singing. He is also known for his contributions with the bands, Hermh, Nile, Damnation, Vader, Sweet Noise, Mastiphal, Decembers Fire, Mess Age, Corruption, Hangover, Ex Deo. Inspired by Norways Black Circle, Nergal formed together with Blasphemous, later other bands joined and far-right politics were introduced, and the group renamed the Temple of Fullmoon. Nergal then distanced himself from the group, mainly because he had no interest in politics. Several years later, the tensions are gone and Nergal and Darken are in good terms nowadays, or as Nergal said in an interview, We dont share the same interests but we share a mutual respect. Nergal has completed six years of history, including one year of Latin at University of Gdańsk, in 2009, ESP guitars released the first Nergals signature guitar. It is a 7-string guitar with a V-style body, which is called the Hex-7, in March 2010, Nergal was held on trial in Poland on blasphemy charges for publicly denouncing religion by ripping up a Bible on stage in 2007. Nergal made the argument that he has artistic license to enhance his live performances by doing such an action and he also supported that freedom of speech should come before religion in Poland. He faced up to two years in prison due to the Bible-tearing, but Darskis charges were dropped on 28 June 2010, in 2011, he assumed the position of a coach on the Polish TV show The Voice of Poland. In July 2012, Nergal became the newest spokesman for Demon Energy drinks that would be distributed throughout Poland, Nergal appeared in full Behemoth attire on the front of four different flavors of the Demon Energy brand alongside the brands slogan of No Limits, No Laws. Darski reportedly donated the majority of funds for limited edition placement to one of the worlds most renowned bone marrow donor centers. In October 2012, Nergal returned to the Polish Supreme Court regarding the 2007 incident where he tore up a bible, the Supreme Court ruled that Darski could be guilty of the crime of “offending religious feelings” even though he did not act with the direct intention of doing so. The case was returned to a court which found him guilty of “intentionally insulting the Holy Bible”. From mid-2009 through early 2011, he was in a highly publicised relationship with Dorota Rabczewska, on 17 March 2011, News. pl reported the couple had called off the engagement and broken up. In 2012, Darski legally changed his name to Nergal Since 2014, in 2015 he opened a nightclub in Sopot named Libation

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Mayhem (band)
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Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo. They were one of the founders of the Norwegian black metal scene, Mayhem disbanded after Aarseths murder, shortly before the release of their debut album, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, regarded as a classic of the black metal genre. Surviving former members Jan Axel Blomberg, Jørn Stubberud and Sven Erik Kristiansen reformed two years later with Rune Eriksen replacing Aarseth, attila Csihar and Morten Iversen have since replaced Kristiansen and Eriksen, respectively. Their post-Aarseth material is characterized by increased experimentation, the 2007 album, Ordo Ad Chao, received the Spellemann award for best metal album. Mayhem was founded in 1984 by guitarist Øystein Aarseth, bassist Jørn Stubberud and drummer Kjetil Manheim, the band members were mainly influenced by groups such as Venom, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Bathory and Celtic Frost. The lineup began playing songs by Black Sabbath, Venom, Motörhead. Norheim played vocals only for a concert, which place in April 1986 in Ski. He later formed hardcore punk band Within Range and Oi. /street punk band Cockroach Clan, whereas, with Kristiansen, Mayhem recorded its first EP, Deathcrush, in 1987, and released it through Euronymous newly formed label Posercorpse Music. The initial 1,000 copy release of Deathcrush quickly sold out and it was later reissued in 1993 by the newly renamed Deathlike Silence Productions as a joint venture with Euronymous Oslo specialist record shop Helvete. Manheim and Maniac left the band in 1988, after two brief replacements, Manheim and Maniacs positions were filled by Swedish vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin and local drummer Jan Axel Blomberg. With Dead, the concerts became notorious. For concerts, Dead went to lengths to achieve the image. From the beginning of his career, he was known to wear corpse paint, according to Necrobutcher, t wasnt anything to do with the way Kiss and Alice Cooper used makeup. Dead actually wanted to look like a corpse and he didnt do it to look cool. Hellhammer claimed that Dead was the first black musician to use corpse paint. To complete his corpse-like image, Dead would bury his stage clothes, while performing Dead would often cut himself with hunting knives and broken glass. Additionally, the band often had pig or sheep heads impaled on stakes, stian Johannsen, who briefly took position as vocalist after Deads suicide, made this statement about him, He didnt see himself as human, he saw himself as a creature from another world. He said he had visions that his blood has frozen in his veins

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Adam Muraszko
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Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, despite Behemoth having been labeled as death metal or thrash metal-influenced, Nergal has mentioned that he does not like the band to be labeled. Behemoth was formed in 1991 as a trio, with Nergal on guitar and vocals, Baal on the drums and they started with the demos Endless Damnation, and The Return of the Northern Moon. The most significant however, was the third demo—. From the Pagan Vastlands and this tape was released by Polish label Pagan Records and later on by the American Wild Rags. Their next release was Sventevith in 1995, a year later, they recorded their second album Grom, which was released in 1996. Grom features many different influences and musical styles, using vocals as well as acoustic guitars and synthesizers. At the same time, Behemoth finally got a chance to live shows in its native country and finally tour around Europe. Two years later, the recorded a third album, titled Pandemonic Incantations. The culmination of their presence and metal media set a new standard for them. However, due to a lack of promotion, the album was not well-publicized, after another extensive tour, Behemoth signed a two-album deal with Italys Avantgarde Music in the fall of 1998. The first result of this new collaboration was the successful album Satanica, the label also secured two European tours for the band in support of Deicide and Satyricon respectively. During that period, Behemoth had to go through some changes and had problems with their ex-Polish label. By the time Satanica came out, Inferno and Les were out of the band, Nergal began looking for new members but could not find a new drummer. Inferno returned to the band in early 2000, along with new members Novy, who handled the duties, and Havok. After the line-up changes Behemoth signed with the Polish label Mystic Production, the follow-up release to Satanica was Thelema.6. Massive guitar parts and precise drumming, with influences from different sources, Thelema.6 was supported by the worldwide press and media, including official releases in Russia and Brazil for the first time. Continuing the support for Thelema.6, Behemoth appeared in several live events like Wacken Open Air, With Full Force, Inferno Metal Festival, Mystic Festival. They started first their headlining tour alongside Carpathian Forest and Khold, in 2001, Behemoth focused on writing new material for a sixth studio album

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Pandemonic Incantations
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Pandemonic Incantations is the third studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was recorded during August and September 1997 at Selani Studio and was mixed in October 1997, the album was then released in 1998 by Solistitium Records, whilst Behemoth were still in their period of transition from black metal to blackened death metal. It is known that on the version of the album. The outro is on track number 66

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Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
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Zos Kia Cultus is the sixth album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was recorded at the Hendrix Studios in June–September 2002 and mastered at the High End Studio in Warsaw in September 2002, the title refers to Zos Kia Cultus, a form of magic developed by Austin Osman Spare. At the end of the track Horns ov Baphomet, the speaking is Aleister Crowley. It is from the track At Sea from the CD The Great Beast Speaks, the album was re-released through Peaceville Records as a limited edition digipak. It contained an audio disc with a video of As Above So Below was included with the release

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Demigod (album)
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Demigod is the seventh studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was recorded during May and July in 2004 at the Hendrix Studios and was released on October 11,2004, daniel Bergstrand mixed the record at the Dug out Studios in Uppsala, Sweden during July and August in 2004. The record was mastered at the Cutting Room in Stockholm. The track XUL included a guest guitar solo by Karl Sanders of Nile, the track Before the Æons Came is an adaptation of a poem by British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne. The track Conquer All was featured as DLC in the rhythm game Rock Band 2, and has continued to be featured in subsequent games

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The Apostasy
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The Apostasy is the eighth full-length album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was released on July 17,2007 through Regain Records, the Apostasy was recorded at the Radio Gdańsk Studios from November 2006 till March 2007. The record was mixed by Daniel Bergstrand in the Dug Out Studio in Uppsala. Then it was mastered by Bjorn Engelmann in the Cutting Room Studios in Stockholm, unlike Behemoths previous studio albums, a piano and a horn section were used in several of the albums songs. During the recording sessions, the band re-recorded a new version of Chant for Eschaton 2000 – originally released on their album Satanica – which was released on the bands 2008 EP, the Apostasy is Behemoths first album to chart on the Billboard 200, having debuted at #149. The album was put out in vinyl format limited to 500 copies. The album title refers to apostasy, the state of having forsaken ones professed belief set, the album cover artwork is a depiction of the Hindu goddess Kali. Rome 64 C. E. – the Great Fire of Rome occurred in 64 C. E. in which Peter from the bible, were allegedly killed and this explains the name of the song Slaying the Prophets ov Isa. Slaying the Prophets ov Isa – Isa is the Arabic name for Jesus, prometherion is a portmanteau of Prometheus and Therion. At the Left Hand ov God is referring to the Left-Hand Path Kriegsphilosophie is German for philosophy of war. Pazuzu – the Pazuzu was a creature of legend in Mesopotamian mythology, with a deformed head, wings of an eagle, sharp claws of a lion on its feet. It is the personification of the south-east storm wind, which brings diseases, christgrinding Avenue talks about the Via Dolorosa and the crucifixion of Jesus

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Evangelion (album)
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Evangelion is the ninth full-length album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was released on August 7,2009 through Nuclear Blast Records and on August 11,2009, the album title refers to the Good News in Christianity, the message of Jesus Christ. The albums cover artwork is a depiction of The Great Harlot of Babylon, in January 2009, the band was in the final stages of the songwriting and rehearsal process for the album. Behemoth entered Radio Gdańsk studio in Poland to begin work on the album on February 16,2009, the band managed to tap Daniel Bergstrand to produce drums on the record. Bergstrand used some unconventional techniques—a big room for the drums to create ambience and 22-channel recording for a more organic, in March they were close to finish recording the guitars, with help from Wojciech and Sławomir Wiesławski from Studio Hertz. Within five days they completed three songs and laid down three rhythm guitars on each side, after which worked on the bass, solos. The band also managed to tap Colin Richardson to mix the album, the band had tried to book him before for their previous album, The Apostasy, but he wasnt available then. In early May, tracking was completed and on May 12 Nergal flew to the United Kingdom to join Colin Richardson to mix the record at Miloco Studios, also in May, Metal Hammer was given the opportunity to listen to three fully completed songs in Miloco Studios. Nergal stated that this was the most relaxing and at the time the most creative studio session he had ever been a part of

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The Satanist (album)
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The Satanist is the tenth album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was announced on 31 May 2013 and released on February 3,2014 through Nuclear Blast and on February 4 in Poland via Metal Blade Records and Mystic Production, respectively. Release was preceded by digital download single Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel and 12 EP under the title released on December 4,2013. The Satanist was recorded between February and June 2013 in Hertz Studio in Białystok, and RG Studio in Gdańsk, the album was mixed by Matt Hyde at Hydeaway Studios in Los Angeles, and mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York City. Release of the album was delayed due to the mixing problems, Behemoth considered working on the album with Josh Middleton who expected not to use a click track, thus the two parties could not agree to work together. A music video was shot for the song Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel which was produced and directed by Grupa 13 and it has premiered on Behemoth YouTube channel on December 3,2013. On January 7,2014, Behemoth released the first part of their video prologue for this album, subsequently, the second part was released on January,14, the third part was released on January,21, and the fourth part was released on January,29. Earlier, on January 28, the lyric video for the song Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer was released. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 92. Joe DiVita of Loudwire noted that the sees the band shed away that skin as they simultaneously get back to some of their blackened roots while exploring new areas with. Grayson Currin of Pitchfork said The Satanist is a coil of most everything Behemoth have ever done well. The editorial staff of Dutch webzine Lords of Metal named it the third best album of 2014, Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes

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And the Forests Dream Eternally
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And the Forests Dream Eternally is the debut EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in August 1994, through Italian label Enthopy Records, the EP was recorded in July 1994 in Warrior Studio. Pure Evil and Hate is a tribute to Bathory and it is one of the bands most popular songs and is often a closer for live performances. The EP was re-released in 1997 by Last Episode Records in a split with Forbidden Spaces by Polish black metal band Damnation and it was re-issued again in 2005, with the tracks from another Behemoth EP, Bewitching the Pomerania, as bonus tracks

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Bewitching the Pomerania
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Bewitching the Pomerania is the second EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in 1997 by Solistitium Records and it was recorded at P. J. Studios, February 1997 and mastered at Vox Mortiis Studio. The EP was the first release of the band, on which Zbigniew Robert Inferno Promiński, Bewitching the Pomerania also marks the bands passage from black metal music to a style more similar to death metal. Bewitching the Pomerania is also the first release to showcase Behemoths new logo from the Old English text to its present form, on Behemoths official webpage Nergal stated that the artwork for Bewitching the Pomerania is by far the worst Behemoth artwork of all time

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Antichristian Phenomenon
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Antichristian Phenomenon is the third EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The first five tracks were recorded in July and August 2000 at the Hendrix Studios in Poland during the Thelema.6 studio session, day of Suffering was recorded in November 2000, also in the Hendrix Studios. Carnage was recorded in April 1999 at the Starcraft Stimulation Studios, a limited tour edition, which was packed in a black jewel case, was released during the European Act of Rebellion tour,1000 copies exist of this edition. There was also a 7-inch picture disc released, which was limited to 500 copies, the EP also contains a multimedia track, a live video of the song Christians To The Lions, featured on Thelema.6. It was filmed at Proxima Club in Warsaw, Poland, on June 15,2001

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Conjuration (EP)
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Conjuration is the fourth EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The first three tracks were recorded between June and September,2002, the live songs were recorded at the Mystic Festival on 13 October 2001. The tracks were mastered at the High End Studio in June,2003. In 2011, the EP was bundled with Slaves Shall Serve and released as part of the compilation album Abyssus Abyssum Invocat

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Slaves Shall Serve
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Slaves Shall Serve is the fifth EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The first 4 tracks were recorded during the Demigod studio sessions at Hendrix Studios during July, the last 2 tracks were recorded live at the Sweden Rock Festival in 2005. The EP was released as an audio disc with 2 videos of Slaves Shall Serve. Both the censored and uncensored versions are included, in 2011, the EP was bundled with Conjuration and released as part of the compilation album Abyssus Abyssum Invocat

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Ezkaton
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Ezkaton is the sixth EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in North America through Metal Blade Records on November 11,2008, the first four tracks were recorded during the The Apostasy studio sessions at the Radio Gdańsk Studios from November 2006 till March 2007. The other three tracks were recorded in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands in October 2007 the during the European Apostasy tour. Ezkaton has also released as a limited edition box set. The set also comes with a track, Devilock on the third picture disc. Each picture disc has one track on each side, in 2014, the EP was included in a re-release of The Apostasy by Peaceville Records. The limited edition box set also has two manufacturing mistakes, the CD title for track 3 Jamal Pekel is written as Jamal Piekiel, and the back of the box misses the live mention for Decade Ov Therion

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Demonica
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Demonica is compilation box set released by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The boxset includes demos plus previously unreleased and re-recorded songs from Behemoths old school days when they still played traditional black metal, the boxset is limited to 10,000 copies and comes packed as an exclusive A5 digibook/slipcase with a 44-page book including rare photos and lyrics. It is also known that a limited edition double vinyl pressing was released. It was re-released as a digipack containing all the original liner notes and lyrics from the box set through the bands current Metal Blade label in 2011

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Behemoth discography
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Later that year, Behemoth sign with the Italian independent record label, Entropy and release the EP And the Forests Dream Eternally in 1994, followed by the debut full-length, 1995s Sventevith. Behemoth sign a deal with Solistitium Records, and released their studio album. The third album, titled Pandemonic Incantations was released in 1998, later that year the group sign a record deal with label Avantgarde Music—the first album released was Satanica in 1999, followed by 2000s Thelema.6, and Zos Kia Cultus, issued in 2002. Behemoth signed a deal with Swedish label Regain Records in 2003, with this new line-up they released Demigod in 2004, followed by 2007s The Apostasy, the first ever Behemoth album that did chart, peaked at number 149 on the US Billboard. Behemoth Media related to Behemoth at Wikimedia Commons

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Vader (band)
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Vader is a Polish death metal band from Olsztyn. Formed in 1983, the group was founded by then-bassist Piotr Peter Wiwczarek, starting as a heavy metal group, Vader eventually went to thrash, speed, and then in the late 1980s became a death metal band. The bands name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series, lyrical themes include stories by H. P. Lovecraft, World War II, horror, and anti-religious messages. According to Billboard magazine, by 2002 Vader sold approximately 500,000 releases around the world, Vader was formed in 1983, the same year as the very first death metal pioneers Possessed and Death. However, at this time Vader was a metal band, later evolving into thrash metal and then finally death metal for the bands first demo, Live in Decay. Vader released another demo, Necrolust, in 1989, but it was not until the third demo, Morbid Reich, in 1990. Morbid Reich sold nearly 10,000 copies, making it one of the most sold metal demos ever and this success earned the group a contract with Earache Records. The songs from Morbid Reich would appear later on Vaders full-length debut album in 1993, due to communication breakdowns, the contract with Earache was terminated and the release of Sothis and The Darkest Age, Live 93, both in 1994, had to be released on different labels. In the meantime, Vader toured relentlessly, and in 1995, Vader then released De Profundis, Future of the Past, and Black to the Blind. Then, Hammerheart Records re-released two early demos, Necrolust and Morbid Reich, as the compilation Reborn in Chaos, in August 1998, Vader released Live in Japan. Vader also recorded the Kingdom EP and a VHS video entitled Vision and Voice around this time, in October 1998, Vader opened for Slayer during a show in Poland. At the end of 1998, Vader signed a contract to Metal Blade Records, Vader spent most of 1999 touring. In March, Vader embarked on their first headlining U. S. tour, the International Extreme Music Festival 1999, in June, the band went on another European tour, and the rest of the summer was filled with numerous appearances at festivals in Central Europe. Vader concluded touring by embarking on a European tour with metal band Testament. In November and December 1999, Vader recorded the album Litany, which was released in March 2000, and recorded a video for the song Cold Demons. In April 2001, Vader released the EP Reign Forever World, featuring re-recorded songs, cover songs, the band promoted the album intensively, touring Poland, Russia and Ukraine, and again in the U. S. In September 2001, they did another European tour with Cryptopsy, Dying Fetus, Catastrophic and this was followed by ten Polish appearances as part of the Thrashem All Festival 2001, along with Krisiun, Behemoth and several Polish death metal and black metal bands. In 2002, Vader released Revelations, and toured England, Scotland, in May, the band released its first DVD, More Vision and the Voice

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Vesania
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Vesania is a Polish symphonic black metal/blackened death metal band. They were formed in 1997 by Orion, Daray, and Heinrich, later members were Annahvahr and Hatrah, who left the band in 1999 and was replaced by Siegmar. Their first album, Moonastray, was a split with Black Altar, released in 2002 by Odium Records, the release was limited to 666 copies and each album was signed with blood. 2003 saw the release across Europe of their first full-length album, Firefrost Arcanum and this was followed by the departure of band member Annahvahr. Their second album God the Lux was released in April,2005 and their third album, Distractive Killusions, was released in 2007 on Napalm Records, from which came their first single Rage of Reason. The vocals include screaming and low growling

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Azarath (band)
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Azarath is a Polish death metal band from Tczew, formed in 1998. Azarath was formed in October 1998 by Inferno, Bruno and D, the band then recorded their first demos, Traitors and Destroy Yourself. After being joined by Bart and completing the lineup, the then played many shows to support the demos and eventually wrote and recorded their debut album, Demon Seed. The album was met with reviews and good response, which got the band an invitation from Polish death metal band Vader to be a supporting act for Vaders Revelations Tour in 2002. In late August 2003, the recorded their second album, Infernal Blasting. Like the first album, it was met with a response from critics. After the recording session for the album, D. left the band because of personal reasons, the band eventually found a second guitarist, Trufel, from the band Yattering, and began touring to promote new album. Between June and August 2006, the recorded their newest album, Diabolic Impious Evil, at Hendrix Studio. The album was released on September 16,2006, after the release of the album, the band started touring in the Blitzkrieg 4 tour, supporting Vader, along with Vesania and Trauma. In November 2007, the played the Legions of Death Attack Tour in Poland with Adam Sierzega on drums. At around the time, the band signed with American record label Deathgasm Records for a standard CD release for the North American territory. The album was released on May 25,2009, later on, for eleven days during September and October 2009, the band supported Behemoth on their Polish Evangelion tour. After the tour, Bruno decided to leave the band and focus on his private life, the band continued on with Necrosodom, from the bands Anima Damnata, Thunderbolt, and Throneum, as the new bass player and vocalist. In January 2011, the band underwent further lineup changes, the band split up with Thrufel, and Necrosodom took over guitar duties instead of bass. The band recruited P. as the new bassist, towards the end of 2010, the band signed Witching Hour Productions. On April 10, Witching Hour released an EP titled Holy Possession, which consisted of the title track, the bands fifth album, Blasphemers Maledictions, was released on June 6,2011 by Witching Hour Productions. In September 2011, the band touring for the album by playing a tour in Poland along with Italian band Bulldozer. In December 2011, the played the European Hatefest Tour, supporting acts like Triptykon, Marduk

Demo (music)
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A demo is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release. Demos are typically recorded on relatively crude equipment such as boom box cassette recorders, small four-track or eight-track machines, songwriters and publishers demos are recorded with minimal instrumentation - usually ju

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Representative examples of unsolicited demo tapes received in the mail by Mutant Pop Records in the late 1990s. The tape in the middle with the photocopied j-card was probably also sold at shows by the band.

Behemoth (band)
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Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, despite Behemoth having been labeled as death metal or thrash metal-influenced, Nergal has mentioned that he does not like the band to be labeled. Behemoth was formed

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Behemoth in 2004, from left to right: Tomasz Wróblewski, Adam Darski and Zbigniew Robert Promiński

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Live at 2008's Hole in the Sky

Black metal
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Black metal is an extreme subgenre and subculture of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw recording, unconventional song structures. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms, during the 1980s, several thrash and death metal bands formed a pro

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A common black metal trait is the use of corpse paint

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Venom's album titled Black Metal inspired the name of the genre

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The basement of Helvete, showing graffiti from the early 1990s

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The Fantoft stave church

Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select th

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Alan Parsons in an ESO 50th anniversary video.

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A Danish recording session

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Mixing Console

Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
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Sventevith is the debut studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in April 1995 by Pagan Records and it has since been re-released through numerous other labels. The album inside cover artwork shows The Temple of Swarog by Stanisław Jakubowski, all music composed by Nergal, except Ancient and Hell Dwells in Ice which were

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Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)

Adam Darski
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Adam Nergal Darski is a Polish musician and television personality, best known for being the frontman for the black/death metal band Behemoth. Darski was born Adam Michał Darski in Gdynia, Poland, raised Catholic and he goes by the stage name Nergal, and he is the founder, lyricist, main composer, frontman and manager of the band Behemoth, which he

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Darski at Empik, 2009

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Nergal and Carl McCoy of Fields of the Nephilim, 2011

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Maciej Maleńczuk and Adam "Nergal" Darski on the shooting set for the Behemoth video clip "Lucifer", 2011

Mayhem (band)
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Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo. They were one of the founders of the Norwegian black metal scene, Mayhem disbanded after Aarseths murder, shortly before the release of their debut album, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, regarded as a classic of the black metal genre. Surviving former members Jan Axel Blomberg, Jørn Stubberu

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Mayhem live in 2008

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From left to right Mayhem's "Dead" (vocalist) and "Euronymous" (guitar player)

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A prolific Norwegian heavy metal drummer, Hellhammer has remained with group since joining in 1988.

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Blasphemer (left) and Maniac (right) joined the band during its 1995 reformation.

Adam Muraszko
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Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, despite Behemoth having been labeled as death metal or thrash metal-influenced, Nergal has mentioned that he does not like the band to be labeled. Behemoth was formed

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Behemoth in 2004, from left to right: Tomasz Wróblewski, Adam Darski and Zbigniew Robert Promiński

Pandemonic Incantations
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Pandemonic Incantations is the third studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was recorded during August and September 1997 at Selani Studio and was mixed in October 1997, the album was then released in 1998 by Solistitium Records, whilst Behemoth were still in their period of transition from black metal to blackened death meta

Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
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Zos Kia Cultus is the sixth album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was recorded at the Hendrix Studios in June–September 2002 and mastered at the High End Studio in Warsaw in September 2002, the title refers to Zos Kia Cultus, a form of magic developed by Austin Osman Spare. At the end of the track Horns ov Baphomet, the speaking is Aleist

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Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)

Demigod (album)
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Demigod is the seventh studio album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was recorded during May and July in 2004 at the Hendrix Studios and was released on October 11,2004, daniel Bergstrand mixed the record at the Dug out Studios in Uppsala, Sweden during July and August in 2004. The record was mastered at the Cutting Room in Stockhol

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2010 re-release cover art

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Demigod

The Apostasy
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The Apostasy is the eighth full-length album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was released on July 17,2007 through Regain Records, the Apostasy was recorded at the Radio Gdańsk Studios from November 2006 till March 2007. The record was mixed by Daniel Bergstrand in the Dug Out Studio in Uppsala. Then it was mastered by Bjorn Engelma

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The Apostasy

Evangelion (album)
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Evangelion is the ninth full-length album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was released on August 7,2009 through Nuclear Blast Records and on August 11,2009, the album title refers to the Good News in Christianity, the message of Jesus Christ. The albums cover artwork is a depiction of The Great Harlot of Babylon, in January 2009, t

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Evangelion

The Satanist (album)
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The Satanist is the tenth album by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The album was announced on 31 May 2013 and released on February 3,2014 through Nuclear Blast and on February 4 in Poland via Metal Blade Records and Mystic Production, respectively. Release was preceded by digital download single Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel and 12 EP under the ti

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alternative LP edition cover art

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Cover art by Denis Forkas, which contains Nergal 's blood.

And the Forests Dream Eternally
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And the Forests Dream Eternally is the debut EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in August 1994, through Italian label Enthopy Records, the EP was recorded in July 1994 in Warrior Studio. Pure Evil and Hate is a tribute to Bathory and it is one of the bands most popular songs and is often a closer for live performances. The EP

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And the Forests Dream Eternally

Bewitching the Pomerania
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Bewitching the Pomerania is the second EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in 1997 by Solistitium Records and it was recorded at P. J. Studios, February 1997 and mastered at Vox Mortiis Studio. The EP was the first release of the band, on which Zbigniew Robert Inferno Promiński, Bewitching the Pomerania also marks the bands pa

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Bewitching the Pomerania

Antichristian Phenomenon
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Antichristian Phenomenon is the third EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The first five tracks were recorded in July and August 2000 at the Hendrix Studios in Poland during the Thelema.6 studio session, day of Suffering was recorded in November 2000, also in the Hendrix Studios. Carnage was recorded in April 1999 at the Starcraft Stimulation

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Antichristian Phenomenon

Conjuration (EP)
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Conjuration is the fourth EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The first three tracks were recorded between June and September,2002, the live songs were recorded at the Mystic Festival on 13 October 2001. The tracks were mastered at the High End Studio in June,2003. In 2011, the EP was bundled with Slaves Shall Serve and released as part of th

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Conjuration

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US edition cover art

Slaves Shall Serve
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Slaves Shall Serve is the fifth EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The first 4 tracks were recorded during the Demigod studio sessions at Hendrix Studios during July, the last 2 tracks were recorded live at the Sweden Rock Festival in 2005. The EP was released as an audio disc with 2 videos of Slaves Shall Serve. Both the censored and uncens

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Slaves Shall Serve

Ezkaton
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Ezkaton is the sixth EP by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. It was released in North America through Metal Blade Records on November 11,2008, the first four tracks were recorded during the The Apostasy studio sessions at the Radio Gdańsk Studios from November 2006 till March 2007. The other three tracks were recorded in Leeuwarden, The Netherlan

Demonica
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Demonica is compilation box set released by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth. The boxset includes demos plus previously unreleased and re-recorded songs from Behemoths old school days when they still played traditional black metal, the boxset is limited to 10,000 copies and comes packed as an exclusive A5 digibook/slipcase with a 44-page book inc

Behemoth discography
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Later that year, Behemoth sign with the Italian independent record label, Entropy and release the EP And the Forests Dream Eternally in 1994, followed by the debut full-length, 1995s Sventevith. Behemoth sign a deal with Solistitium Records, and released their studio album. The third album, titled Pandemonic Incantations was released in 1998, later

Vader (band)
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Vader is a Polish death metal band from Olsztyn. Formed in 1983, the group was founded by then-bassist Piotr Peter Wiwczarek, starting as a heavy metal group, Vader eventually went to thrash, speed, and then in the late 1980s became a death metal band. The bands name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series, lyrical themes include

Vesania
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Vesania is a Polish symphonic black metal/blackened death metal band. They were formed in 1997 by Orion, Daray, and Heinrich, later members were Annahvahr and Hatrah, who left the band in 1999 and was replaced by Siegmar. Their first album, Moonastray, was a split with Black Altar, released in 2002 by Odium Records, the release was limited to 666 c

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Vesania, 2011

Azarath (band)
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Azarath is a Polish death metal band from Tczew, formed in 1998. Azarath was formed in October 1998 by Inferno, Bruno and D, the band then recorded their first demos, Traitors and Destroy Yourself. After being joined by Bart and completing the lineup, the then played many shows to support the demos and eventually wrote and recorded their debut albu